OpenFOAM-based · reacting flows
HAVAFoam
High-speed solver built in OpenFOAM for compressible, reacting and hypersonic flows, with detailed chemistry, modern shock capturing and adaptive mesh refinement.
HAVAFoam is an in-house high-speed flow solver developed within the OpenFOAM framework for compressible, reacting and hypersonic flows. It combines advanced shock-capturing techniques with detailed thermodynamic and chemical-kinetic models to predict complex flows involving multiple gas species, combustion and nonequilibrium effects.
HAVAFoam supports a wide range of numerical methods, including high-resolution flux schemes and modern Riemann solvers, for robust and accurate solutions of challenging aerodynamic and propulsion problems. It is compatible with both Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) and Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) turbulence modelling, from engineering design to high-fidelity flow physics.
To handle extreme gradients such as shock waves, expansion fans and hypersonic flow fields efficiently, HAVAFoam uses adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), which concentrates resolution where it is needed and reduces cost while keeping accuracy.
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Re-entry capsule flow at Mach 25 with adaptive mesh refinement concentrated at the shock.
Hypersonic re-entry flow at Mach 25 computed with HAVAFoam. Adaptive mesh refinement concentrates cells where the gradients are largest, such as the bow shock, keeping the cost down while preserving accuracy.
Viscous simulation of the Rutgers expansion tube facility.
A digital model of an expansion tube facility, simulated with HAVAFoam including viscous effects.
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